The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1887-11-05
or GENERAL INTEREST.

of q dollar.
A healthy-looking tramp at Bangor
asked woman if she would give him a
dinner. She told him il wasn't her
dinner hour. but she could give him a
substantial lunch. IL don't want
lunch. | want a dinner" replied the
high-toned beggar. and he walked of.
The wild-eyed, long-haired. SOM
brero-topped men so numerous in Oma-
ha nowadays are not cowboys nor
army scouts nor Indian-slayers-unless
the lowly red-man purchases their
wares. They are patent-medicine fa-
kers from the lndianless East. Omaha
Chronicle.
"A little Burlington girl who dis
likes arithmetic was asked to give the
sum of nine cows and seven cows.
Fifteen" she replied When in
formed that this was wrong, she pctu-
lantly exclaimed: lit doesn't make
any difference if we only get the milk.
Huntington Free Press.
Mrs. Elisha Merritt. of Gainesville.
Ga. who is now over eighty years old.
has an iron pot which has been in the
possession of the family for many gen
erations. II was brought from Hol-
land long before the revolutionary war,
and had been in the family for several
generations before that Family tra-
dition makes its age at least three hun
dred years.
A New York State Judge who had
a kissing case before him said: There
is no objection, so far as | can see. 10
man kissing girl if she be willing.
But you must not do it against her will.
She has a right TO object, and il she
does you mustn't do it. BE sure she is
willing before you try" II she object,
then take some girl who WON'T Ooid-
hd World
Friend (to patent medicine manu-
facturer)-"How is your great cure
all remedy taking, old manP' Manu-
facturer - Immensely. I've made
enough out Of it in the last three
months to warrant n trip to Europe" "
Friend-"Going for pleasure, sup
pose" Manufacturer-"No I'm go-
ing for my health. ."-Drdke's Travel
erS' Magazine.
"A Hartford Comm man sent his
boy into the country equipped with
woodchuck trap and other appliances
for enjoying his vacation, and told him
TO have n good time and be sure TO go
to church on Sundays. The first letter
he received from the boy said: Dear
papa, I've caught woodchuck. ltwas
a skunk. ! did not go TO church. Yours
affectionately.
"A lady writes the Nantucket
(Mass.) Journal that many years ago a
small army of tiny red ants took pos
until cool weather. Every year they
returned. She was advised 10 try tar.
which she did, placing large chunk
on dish in a corner Of the shelf. The
ants left. and have never returned.
The same piece of tar has stood in the
same place for fifteen years.
An old mailing table in the Ogdcns.
burg On. Y) post-oflice was torn Ia
pieces recently, and between the lin
ings and the outside Of the shutes lead
ing TO the bags were found sixty-seven
letters that had slipped through cracks
in the table. Some Of the letters bore
postmark dates showing that they We're
mailed in 1873, and one contained a
foreign money order that the Post office
Department made good several years
ago.
"A man who was wanted on some
criminal charge in a Dakota town re-
Gently disguised himself in woman :
dress and bonnet and tried TO drive out
Of town in a carriage, hut was arrested
before he had gone half a mile. The
detective happened TO see the carriage
90 past and was convinced the driver
was not a woman as soon as he noticed
that he didn't drive twice as fast up
hill rs on the level or say "whoa'
twice after the horse stopped.
A man at Prague, Bohemia, swal-
lowed a small watch with chain at
tached, which "A joker had slipped into
a glass Of beer while the mans back
was turned. The metal, dissolved by
the acids Of the stomach, has poisoned
that organ and keeps it in an incessant
state Of fever, making him unable 10
retain food. The man has been dis
missed from the Munich hospital as in
curablc. and now lies in a hospital al
Prague, kept alive by food artifcially
injected. waiting 10 see whether the
watch will all dissolve or be will die
first.
There are now cables on almost
every sea and ocean bed, the total
length Of wire laid being nearly 49,
900 nautical miles. There are nine
cables connecting Europe with Ameri-
ca. the first that was laid dating from
1853. So great, also. has the advance
been in the operative aspect Of cable
telcgraphy that practically no more
difficulty is felt in repairing submarine
lines than in attending TO defects in
those on land. IL Is seldom any serious
arrangement Of the telegraphic system
takes place. When IL does it il Of
comparatively brief duration. Puddle
Opinion.
DR.. Chapman. in the Medical and
Surgical Reporter. says that nine-tenths
Of the wild animals in confinement are
subject % heart disease, although all
animals have their ueculisritieg The